American Friends of St James's Piccadilly
Legal name: American Friends of St James's Piccadilly Inc C/o Hurwit & Associates
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 872507526
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- London, MA, United Kingdom
- Phone
- 020 7734 4511
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and Fund Distribution
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,120,848
- Expenses
- $722,778
- Assets
- $396,652
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PHILIP BOBBITT KBE (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- PHILIP BOBBITT KBE (PRESIDENT)
- TAI-HENG CHENG (CHAIRMAN)
- STEVE MAHLE (DIRECTOR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To support and advance the religious, educational, historic, cultural, and community programs in the united kingdom, the united states, and elsewhere, of st james's church, piccadilly. “Under the new **Data (Use and Access) Act 2025** (DUAA), we can send you electronic mail (emails, social media messages) about our charitable purposes and ways you can support us if you have previously shown interest or offered support to our charity. Your choices and rights:** When you provide your details, we will always give you a clear and simple way to say ‘no’ to marketing. Every message we send will also include an easy way to opt out (e.g., an unsubscribe link). You can stop receiving these communications at any time by following the opt-out instructions or contacting us.” We will not, however, send you any unsolicited marketing or spam and will take all reasonable steps to ensure t.
What it reported doing in 2024
The organization made grants to support and advance the religious, educational, historic, cultural, and community programs in the united kingdom, the united states, and elsewhere, of st james's church, piccadilly.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 77
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 69
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 66.7%; rating input score 67
- Program expense ratio: 97%; rating input score 97
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Limited
- Conducts field audits: Limited
- May suspend future funding: Limited
- Requires financial reports: Limited
- Conducts site visits: Limited
- Requires grant agreements: Limited
- May require repayment: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 35.5%; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.55; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 39.7% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 58.2% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 146.6% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 66.7% of revenue deployed · 97% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $701K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 17 of 17 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.